12.14.2011
Mideast can accept Israel if Netanyahu will let it Haaretz
Mideast can accept Israel if Netanyahu will let it
Haaretz (blog) - 2 hours ago
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset in 2009. There is no mention of wiping Israel off the map; for the overwhelming majority of Arab elites Israel is a fact of life with which they are coming to terms ...
Australian prime minister impressed by Obama as a 'good person' during his ... Washington Post
Washington Post -
CANBERRA, Australia - Australia's prime minister said Wednesday that President Barack Obama impressed her as a “good person” through his acknowledgment of attendants and security staff during his recent visit to Australia.
Obama administration says 2.5M young adults gain coverage through ... Washington Post
Obama administration says 2.5M young adults gain coverage through ...
Washington Post -
WASHINGTON - The number of young adults lacking medical coverage has shrunk by 2.5 million since the new health care overhaul law took effect, according to a new analysis the Obama administration is to release Wednesday. That drop is 2½ times as large ...
5 Anti-Environment Policies Republicans Don't Want You To Notice Huffington Post
Huffington Post -
Instead of putting anti-environment policies up for debate as stand-alone bills, they're trying to bypass scrutiny by sticking them into other pieces of legislation -- like appropriations bills -- that have to pass to keep key services or pet programs ...
Arsenic in water near coal-fired US plants: monitor AFP
Arsenic in water near coal-fired US plants: monitor
AFP - 14 hours ago
WASHINGTON - An environmental monitor Tuesday identified 19 new sites across the United States where groundwater near coal-ash dumps from po...
Methane discovery stokes new global warming fears Shock as retreat of Arctic ... The Independent
Methane discovery stokes new global warming fears Shock as retreat of Arctic ...
The Independent - 22 minutes ago
The total amount of methane stored beneath the Arctic is calculated to be greater than the overall quantity of carbon locked up in global coal reserves so there is intense interest in the stability of these deposits as the polar region warms at a ...
12.13.2011
Suu Kyi's NLD party granted legal status Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times -
Myanmar authorities on Tuesday gave the green light to Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition to rejoin mainstream politics, setting the scene for the Nobel laureate to run for a seat in the new parliament.
'Fountains' of methane 1000m across erupt from Arctic ice - a greenhouse gas ... Daily Mail
Daily Mail -
In deep water, methane gas oxidizes into carbon dioxide before it reaches the surface. In the shallows of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, methane simply doesn't have enough time to oxidize, which means more of it escapes into the atmosphere.
World risks climate catastrophe: IEA Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald -
The absence of a global legally binding agreement on climate change, along with a rethink on nuclear energy, risks a failure to arrest catastrophic temperature rises, the International Energy Authority's chief economist says.
12.12.2011
'Israel must recognize Palestinian peace efforts' Jerusalem Post
'Israel must recognize Palestinian peace efforts'
Jerusalem Post - 1 day ago
“When democracy prevails in the Middle East, Israel will eventually have to end its violence in Palestine,” Gul said, claiming that Arab dictators had ...
Insurance Companies Feeling the Effects of Climate Change OilPrice.com
OilPrice.com -
It is telling that, even as some business groups oppose climate-change legislation in Washington, many of the companies with the most to lose from global warming are treating it as a reality - and pricing their products accordingly.
Goldman Sachs Top Target of Occupy Protests at West Coast Ports San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle -
Dec. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the fifth- biggest US bank by assets, is a major target of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators who plan to blockade ports from Anchorage to San Diego to cut into profits of the company they blame for ...
12.11.2011
Freedom in Israel Financial Times
Financial Times -
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli premier, must reverse this worrying slide. Three new laws are particularly objectionable. The Nakba Law and the Boycott Law blatantly curtail freedom of speech: the first bans state-funded bodies from commemorating the ...
Palestinian protester 'was deliberately shot in the face' with gas grenade The National
The National -
A tear-gas canister fired by an Israeli soldier hit the 28-year-old Palestinian man in the head during Friday's demonstration, according to dozens of witnesses.
Faith leaders don't see an Obama war on religion San Antonio Express
San Antonio Express -
AUSTIN - If President Barack Obama is waging war on religion as Gov. Rick Perry claims, it's a surprise to some of the faithful on the front lines of efforts to care for Texas' poor and hungry.
SL here. A note to my 3 Friends.
Our words are so inadequate for all that is of consequence.
The word 'despair' is the best I can think of to describe what I'm feeling with respect to the future, the IMMEDIATE, and ETERNAL future of Humanity, Earth, Creation. Anything less than despair
and I'd be quite a dead husk of a creature, and/or delusionalas to how bleak it is. We don't have a technology problem, a resource problem, an energy problem, a social science problem.
We have a Heart problem, a Soul problem, a Humanity problem, a Sanity problem, clinically. The problem with the world 'despair' is that it suggests debilitation or dysfunction. I'm quite fully
functional, but yes, I feel despair, deeply.
As to the outlook for my actions - in crisis, we only learn by diving in - all Revolutionaries of Change, of Love, of Humanity, they dive in first. And so it is with me, and this is the choice I continue to make. When the notion of ceasing food and water for days, weeks, months... years (if they kept me on life support) came to me, I examined it carefully, tested it, and when it seemed Right, seemed sound, I moved in that direction, and alerted you. Only when one leaps into a situation can further, accelerated learning happen. What I may be learning, once again, more deeply, with more data, more experience, is thatA. In a graveyard, 2011 US, such a move is relatively pointless;
B. I've been correct in recent months to place ALL hope, for whenever there might be of Hope, in Insane Humanity, that many of us evidence from time to time, and that one out of a million come to and Live with every breath. (I like the term Insane Humanity - it really captures, but like all our language, 'denial,' and our other defenses can trash it real quick. ) Therefore, it may be that I am to serve by moving more deeply into, resigning myself much more fully to living in a 'cave,' my ever increasing solitude, isolation... devoting myself to the possibility that directly or indirectly I ever meet someone that is desperate to give their Insane Humanity control of their lives, but need help in taking that step. It may be that my primary responsibility will be preparing centrally for such a moment, that I fully don't expect to come.
With amusement, and seriousness, the image of Obi-Wan stays with me, and the WLODI (Wage Love or Die) Warriors. All hope, ALL hope lies in this. Jesus would agree I think - he and his hand-picked apostles were the equivalent. I don't think He ever foresaw that more than one in a million of us would find Life - our Insane Humanity. I've resisted, and still do, this notion, but that is out of cowardice and denial on my part. "Many are called by few choose to follow." "The gate is narrow, and few will enter in." The Insanely Humane is who He meant. Who do you know that fits this description? Harriet Tubman did, and Eleanor Roosevelt, Mother Jones, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jesus, Assisi, Teresa..., the Insane Humane. 1 in a million. The Yeast. The Levin. The Mustard seed. The Yeast isn't the bread, nor the Levin. The seed isn't the tree. They are but trace elements. I hope I'm wrong, but objectively, I think not. And now there is no Yeast, no Levin, no Mustard Seed.
There is a good chance that Christmas eve I'll begin yet another hunger strike, but probably taking liquids, able to live off of body fat recently acquired, but not much, for maybe 15-40 days. I foresee being much in front of the White House, possibly playing, over and over, the Plan B 3.0 W/O the BS video, audio I'm half way through creating now; for my own education / development, and for the rare passerby with any Heart for Humanity. In effect I must be on my 10th reading of Plan B 3.0, and every day I read other sources on the subject, too. I'm not stupid. And really, I'm not all that slow a learner. The scope, scale, degree of the horror that we humanoids of 2011 are condemning all of creation to, forever, is vast, so unimaginable, so totally overwhelming... that it takes so long for it to sink in. Think Eternal Holocaust. Studies reported conclusively that the Germans were all very 'nice,' 'normal' folks. And so are we.
My feeling that it was right for me to advise you three of my plans has pretty much left me, I think. I can and do manage my work on my own. I experience myself like a Space Probe, fired off into the unknown, sending back what it sees, for whatever Good that might do. I expect to continue my practice of doing so at my Blog, if you ever have interest. I've pretty much discontinued
posting to my FB page, or YouTube (except as a video repository) as these are pretty much sites of all talk, all spectating, no action.
Brother, my Will and Testament, should they ever be needed, will be on my person, and will mention you as the point of contact for any belongings on my person, and you know my intent that anything
I have be liquidated and proceeds to Diane for her work. I'll probably soon find, and resend the copy from last time so you have it.
xx sl
Note of interest: Jesus, and Obi-Wan, for that matter, there came a point where they served better by allowing their life to be taken by the raging inhumanity around them, but not until there was, were, those of latent Insane Humanity assembled that it might ignite. I don't see that. Yet. "No one comes to me except that the Father brings them." Maybe it is for me to wait, prepare, get ready, in the unlikely event....
Israeli strike Palestinian killed, 7 minors among 12 hurt Pakistan Observer
Pakistan Observer -
Gaza/Palestine—An Israeli air strike killed a Gaza civilian and wounded 12 others, including seven children, when it hit a home next to a militant training ground, medics said on Friday.
Climate deal: A guarantee our children will be worse off than us The Guardian
Climate deal: A guarantee our children will be worse off than us
The Guardian (blog) - 33 minutes ago
After the feast of words in Durban, comes the reckoning: the deal ensures beyond doubt that our children will be worse off than we have been. Unlike the economic debt currently transfixing the attention of world's leaders, it appears possible to them ...
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